What is the price of gold today?

Understanding today’s gold spot price can keep you informed and help you make sound investing decisions. Busakorn Pongparnit/Getty Images Gold has, for centuries, been an attractive commodity. Not only is the precious metal viewed as a form of currency, but it’s considered an attractive investment commodity as well. That’s especially the case when market or …

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Fraying Loyalist Base Will Challenge Iran’s New Leader

By Parisa Hafezi and Angus McDowall DUBAI, March 9 (Reuters) – Iran’s new supreme leader faces a massive external assault and growing ⁠internal ⁠anger at a time when the backing of the diehard ideologues ⁠who supported his predecessors is less clear than before. Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei, who has deep influence inside Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps …

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Police warn of crocodiles “absolutely everywhere” after Australia floods

Police in Australia’s Northern Territory warned of crocodiles “absolutely everywhere” on Sunday and said they had moved more than 1,000 people across the state into shelter after massive floods. The state has endured heavy rains over the weekend, with the town of Katherine experiencing its worst flooding since 1998. Police evacuated more than 1,000 people …

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EU to Sign Defence Partnerships With Australia, Iceland and Ghana, Kallas Says

BRUSSELS, March ⁠9 (Reuters) – ⁠The EU ⁠will sign ​defence partnerships with ‌Australia, Iceland ‌and ⁠Ghana ⁠in the coming days, EU ​foreign policy chief Kaja ​Kallas said on Monday. “There ⁠are ⁠many other ⁠interested countries ​knocking at our ​door,” ⁠Kallas added in a ⁠speech in Brussels. “A growing number of countries ⁠around the globe are …

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